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CIOs: Strike a Balance Between Citizen Developers and Enterprise Architecture

December 17, 2012

I just read an interesting article on Wired.com that pits CIOs against "Rogue Developers" (what I prefer to call Citizen Developers) and posits that answer lies in private cloud environments. The article does make a good point: in larger enterprises a balance ...

Will 2013 be the Year of PaaS?

December 14, 2012

Over the past several weeks, a lot of research and news has come out to suggest that 2013 will be a breakthrough year for platform-as-a-service and cloud apps in all their permutations. A recent analysis report signals a major shift towards PaaS starting in 20...

CIOs: Tap the Power of Caspio on Your Own Terms

December 13, 2012

In today’s enterprise the responsibilities of the IT department are difficult and complex. SaaS and PaaS solutions offer an alternative for IT departments looking to lower complexity and costs. And, SaaS and PaaS tools are being championed by business users,...

Tech Tip: Generate Geolocation Coordinates from Submission Forms

December 11, 2012

Note: For these and other Tech Tips - visit our Caspio Online Help page. Every location has a latitude and longitude, also called geocode. If you have a database that contains addresses, having goecodes of the addresses gives you capabilities that are otherwis...

Free App: Store Locator

December 6, 2012

Caspio has released our latest free app, an easy-to-use Store Locator. This ready-made app offers a comprehensive set of web tools allowing you to roll out your own advanced "location finder" on your website, mobile site or within your existing apps. It is a t...

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Five Reasons Online News Publishers Should Use Caspio

December 5, 2012

Our announcement yesterday that Halifax Media has selected Caspio as its standard for cloud-based apps and databases got me thinking. I was curious to learn why Caspio was such a popular platform among online news publishers, and why we continue to have such i...

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Halifax Media Group Goes Hyper-Local with Caspio

December 4, 2012

Today we announced that Halifax Media Group has decided to standardize on Caspio for its online database and community-focused, data-driven apps for its 33 news media properties across the southeastern United States. We are thrilled about Halifax building out ...

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Caspio and Amazon Affinities: Elasticity and Customer Centricity

December 3, 2012

While our VP of Engineering and Operations Ioannis Kritikopoulos was attending the Amazon re: Invent conference in Las Vegas last week, I checked out some of the keynotes online. More and more, I realize that while Caspio may use Amazon Web Services as its c...

Building Apps with Caspio Vs. Force.com and Database.com

November 30, 2012

When it comes to building apps in the cloud, there are a few paths to take. Developers can utilize bare-bones platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings, and essentially hard code in the cloud much the same way they would on their own servers. The benefit here is ...

Supporting “BYOD” Initiatives with Caspio

November 29, 2012

Terms like Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the Consumerization of IT are hot topics right now. The explosion in mobile device usage is having major effects in how IT departments both manage and design systems. Recent research has shown that more than half of ...

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